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â€˜Mindwalk: The Screenplayâ€™

By Floyd Byars, Bernt Capra & Fritjof Capra with Scientific Commentary by Fritjof Capra, a Directorâ€™s Note by Bernt Capra, and behind-the-scenes photos 108 pages, $13 Book, ... (Read More)

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Reflections and Deflections

â€œThe clichÃ© is the handrail of the crippled mind,â€ the British comic actor and writer Spike Milligan has said. That may be true, but clichÃ©sâ€”like leader ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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Of Tarot Cards And Crows

Ah, the Tarot cards. That mystical channel to lifting the veil, tapping into hidden answers, future possibilities, maybe meeting your own doom or higher self. ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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10 Signs Youâ€™re Computer Illiterate

(Technopedia: Last updated: May 13, 2021) 1. Multifactor authentication sounds like something vaguely related to math courses. Multifactor authentication is ... (Read More)

By Michelle Greenlee

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On Homelessness, Will Crisis Bring Change?

President Kennedy famously claimed that the Chinese word weiji includes two characters meaning â€œcrisisâ€ and â€œopportunity.â€ But linguists tell us that th ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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Kathie Gibboney

My daughter has done me in. Iâ€™m gone, departed, shipped out, bit the dust, shuffled off this mortal coil, joined the heavenly choir (singing off key). Iâ€™m p ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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Whoâ€™s a Journalist? Who Says?

Authorâ€™s Note: As this issue was going to press, Sen. Mike McGuire and Sen. Anthony Portantino, the billâ€™s sponsor and co-sponsor respectively, announced th ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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Insufficient Reason

When we consider the crippling infirmities of American politics, let us start with the legendary cynic and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who wrote in 1916 t ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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A Fire for All Seasons

Itâ€™s a spring afternoon, gentle and lithe. After a long year of pandemic, thereâ€™s a feeling of things finally opening up: flowers, schools, libraries, and p ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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Nothing Like the Sun

It has come to my mind to converse with a crow. Suddenly I am desirous of some interspecies communication. Yes, to some, crows and their corvus cousin, the ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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The First Amendmentâ€™s Fair-Weather Friends

Despite what weâ€™d all like to believe, free speech and free expression have never been broadly popular with the general public. â€œWhat a heavy oar the pen ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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On A Clear Day

As I drove to the optometry appointment I envisioned (get it?) new glasses. Itâ€™s been years since Iâ€™d had an eye exam and the old glasses were pretty useles ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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Situation Normal?

Now that many of us â€œoldsâ€ have gotten our second dose of the coronavirus vaccine (Moderna in our case, my wife and I experiencing only minimal side effects ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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The Computer Electronic Show 2021

With all the craziness going on in politics, life still goes on. Politics is always decades behind the cutting edge of life anyway, and life is really far out t ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

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Shame On Us!

Joel Bellman holds forth on the value of shame. As long I can remember, itâ€™s been an article of faith among the cognoscenti that â€œshameâ€ is a bad thing ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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Beware the Threat of Attention Engineering

Columnist LaBrot is hot on the trail of a design renaissance to replace, or at least compete with todayâ€™s social media dominance that hacks us where it hurts: ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

Getting Hip

It isnâ€™t light at 5:30 a.m. I see no sign of Auroraâ€™s rosy fingers drawing back nightâ€™s curtain and painting her magic oranges and pinks across the sky. B ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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Modern Monsters

I knew this year was going to be tough because of the election. But it is a horror show to actually see communities, friendships and families ripped apart by th ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

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Elusive Truths

Last November I told G that I dreaded 2020. â€œWhy?â€ he asked. Because this election year is going to be so ugly, so divisive, so intellectually bereft, so â ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

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Contract for the Web

I have been thinking about the internet a lot lately. The early inventors and users had such high ideals about its use. Tim Berners-Lee, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

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Is Hindsight 2020? What We Can Do to Stay Involved

â€œFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.â€ â€”Ruth Bader Ginsburgâ€” 2020 was supposed to be a gre ... (Read More)

Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

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Media Literacy and Civility

On September 11, 2001, I woke up. I groped for the remote to ignite the television. I saw a plane crash into a building and heard lots of screaming. I thought i ... (Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

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Evident Truths

Fireworks can be heard in our hills. A random, surprising boom off in the distance, somewhere. Even though the Fourth of July has come and gone, it is reported ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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The Parade Happened Anyway: Topanga Days

Being so much here at home, Iâ€™ve been given a chance to witness some miracles I might have otherwise missed. I saw caterpillars form their hard-shelled chrys ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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Rude Interruptions "American Carnage"

Twice this week, people asked me to compare todayâ€™s spiraling chaos to two of the darker moments in recent history, specifically 1968 and 1992. Then, likewise ... (Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

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Sarah Baisley â€” The Heroine Down the Road

Sarah Baisley, a lustrous Old Canyon resident, was once overheard advising a friend, over a glass of wine, â€œYou have to let go of fear, just let it the *#c% g ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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The Origin of Power

The power of the people is stated in the words â€œWe the peopleâ€¦,â€ the first three words of the Constitution of the United States. So how does this concep ... (Read More)

Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

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X Always Marks the Spot

There are certain areas in our cluttered home I have not the fortitude to face. I eschew the cobwebby bookshelf, the booby-trapped prop and costume closet, the ... (Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

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